Stabroek Weekend

“I am extremely proud of myself for the woman I have become.

For a short while one summer day out of nowhere in my life she flashed like a comet across my sky.

In the course of having a career in music, which led to my doing a series of columns headed SO IT GO in Sunday Stabroek, material of one sort of another comes to me in diverse ays. Recently,

Introduction Today’s column addresses the third and final policy choice that I anticipate Guyana will have to make in this decade.

Every film teaches you how to read it. The way a filmmaker encourages you to pick up on clues, references, motifs, is a key part of the way we engage with cinema.

Recently, I listened to a group of gym-goers debate about what time of the day is best to workout.

The idea that chess should only be played by a select minority is to be abhorred.

With Scott’s Electrical, Maintenance and Transportation Services, electrician Kwsie Scott has created an apparent one-stop-shop.

Four years after two of her children died horrifically during a fire at the state-owned Drop-in-Centre on Hadfield Street, Sonia George has also died and now her remaining children are in the care of her relatives.

The Rotaract Club of Georgetown last Sunday launched its Childhood Obesity Awareness campaign with the painting of murals at the Kingston Seawall in observance of World Rotaract Week.

Last Update: 703. 04                             Movement: -0.19% Current Update: 703.37                         YTD Movement: 1.81% The Lucas Stock Index rose 0.19% during the third period of trading in March 2021.

Allan Price, now deceased, lived abroad but owned a portion of land in Queenstown which, by definition, is “immovable property.”

Long lines stretched longer by social distancing, and empty shelves have been the experience of many people across the world, as the global pandemic took hold and countries went into various periods of lockdown/shutdown.

Since the pandemic began, women have faced the brunt of it.

The South Rupununi Conservation Society (SRCS) is imparting traditional knowledge covering indigenous skills, culture and dialects that are fast seeming to fade to 240 youths from eight villages in the South Rupununi and the Central Sub-district.

Earl Montgomery Thomas, of St Lucian Mission, Wakapoa, in the Pomeroon River, Region Two had to reach rock bottom before he took control of his life.

When Beverly Bentham decided that she was going to own her own home, she did whatever it took, including sometimes walking in almost knee-high mud to access the land.

After earning an Economics degree at the University of Guyana, Shivana Persaud found herself planning for several local businesses that were eager to put her knowledge to work.

“Well I see she back home now and is like she would be looking at me from underneath, you know.

Such men as these walk onto a field of play, or enter a room, and their life-force brings everyone to silence and attention – these were two men who in their very different ways set my mind alight.